Re: crashing Xeon?

On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 02:04:11PM +0200, Hubert Fröhlich wrote:

> I monitored the filling process. When reading data, all was fine. When
> setting up the indices after reading the data, I managed to crash the
> system (?!) several times (not regularly, but mostly related with heavy
> load on the box

Did you check your hardware?  Postgres is never able to crash the
machine, since it doesn't run as root.  If the operating system crashes
when Postgres puts it under load, the blame is elsewhere.

Try memtest86, cpuburn, badblocks (if you're on Linux).

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